View full sizeSEAN SIMMERS, The Patriot-NewsEero, an 11 year-old Welsh springer spaniel from Atlanta, models his rabbit ears during the Harrisburg Kennel Club All Breed Dog Show at the state Farm Show Complex.

As the song "Werewolves of London" blasted over the bikers inside Exposition Hall,Irish wolfhounds the size of motorcycles made their way through crowded exhibition halls at the other end of the Pennsylvania Farm Show complex.

And as dog owners thumbed through the latest in leather leashes, bikers checked out the racks of leather chaps and jackets.

The Farm Show Complex was abuzz on Saturday with events that appealed to those who love dogs and ride hogs. Both events — the Harrisburg Kennel Club’s April All-Breed Dog Show and the 2011 Sturgis Road Show — have activities that run through today.

The crowd that each event attracts is not mutually exclusive.

In fact, Gail Wolaniuk of Garnet Valley, Delaware County, was revved up about hitting the biker bash after she got done showing her dog.

"I’m dying to check it out," she said, brushing the pompom on the leg of Spencer, her reclining 2½-year-old standard poodle.

View full sizeSEAN SIMMERS, The Patriot-NewsDon Robson of Lancaster holds Bandit, a 3-year-old Pomeranian, during the 2011 Sturgis Roadshow. Robson says the dog travels with him on his motorcycle everywhere he goes.

She hoped all the prep work would pay off with a ribbon before heading down to the Sturgis Road Show where the 1970s rockers Bachman and Turner and Styx were to perform last evening.

Eero, an 11-year-old Welsh Springer spaniel, had already won a prize for Best of Veteran sweepstakes, an award given to the best of the old champions. Now it was picture time as his owner Adrienne Bancker of Atlanta put a pair of bunny ears on the red-and-white freckle-faced dog and had photos taken of him standing next to his pink-and-green ribbon.

Having a bunch of bikers in the building didn’t make Bancker nervous.

"We’re over here in the dog show and they’re over there. If anything goes bad, you want a lot of motorcycle people on your side," she said with a laugh.

Down long hallways and up a flight of steps from where the dogs were strutting for the judges, Shawn Wolfe of Hagerstown, Md., was laid out on a table with her bare belly exposed.

A slight grimace occasionally came upon her face as the tattoo artist’s buzzing tattoo machine injected ink into the skin around her belly button, spelling out the word "Rupp" above it and "Trike" below.

She had been thinking about a tattoo to display her loyalty to the manufacturer of her trike motorcycle. But she said it wasn’t until she walked past the tattoo cafe and saw idle hands of several tattoo artists waiting for a blank canvas that led her to get it.

Fifteen minutes later, she slid off the table with a bandage over her latest artwork. "It stings. I’ll be honest it stings. They all do but hey, it becomes a sickness," Wolfe said.

Bob Morgan of Steelton didn’t come to the Sturgis event for a tattoo. He came to get in out of the rain, look around at ways to trick out his 2010 Road Glide Harley Davidson and revel in all things motorcycle.

Flipping through a catalog of Harley accessories, Morgan said he has owned motorcycles made by other manufacturers throughout his life, but now Harley is it for him.

"The thing about a Harley is for one, the motor. There’s a lot of bottom end torque on them compared to any Japanese bike. The weight of a motorcycle makes it ride better, makes it more like you’re riding a car instead of a toy. And when you get on a Harley, it’s not about speed. It’s about a nice safe fun trip," he said.

The way he gushed over his Harley was similar to how Bancker raved about her prize-winning Welsh springer spaniel. He’s agile, has a stable temperament and is good-looking, she said. But she added one more thing that you’re unlikely to ever hear a hog owner say about a bike, her dog has a spot under his chin that he likes scratched.

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